You could almost call them marriages, even though I didn’t marry. But it was costly.
AL PACINOActing is hard work. At times, it’s very energizing and enervating.
More Al Pacino Quotes
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When you’re reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call “taking up with a writer,” something happens.
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I did it in Looking for Richard, too. And I figure, if I can weave it into the actual play and get the audience interested, like the robes going up and down, they’ll pay attention long enough to consume it.
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The physical stamina [in Revolution]. I was just shocked by it. I didn’t think I had it in me ever, and I wasn’t terribly young when I did it. I was in my early forties.
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When I was younger, there was the sex thing. That’s par for the course.When you’re a movie star, it went with it. It’s a kind of rite of passage, socially.
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I’m much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I’ve always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me.
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Or try out what I learned and see how it worked with an audience, because where are you gonna get an audience?
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A kiss is a lusty dollop of dessert to be served with desire and savored with passion.
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Jamie Foxx does a good rendition of me. It’s a real gift, mimicry of that kind, the tonal thing. It’s sort of like having a talent for playing an instrument.
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There’s something to learn from it. I’ve had movies that have failed colossally, so you kind of analyze your failures.
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The hardest thing about being famous is that people are always nice to you.
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[Julie Marie Pacino]is a great ballplayer, which I wanted to be. She did make four films by the time she was 14 but we’re not going to talk about that.
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Shakespeare’s plays are more violent than ‘Scarface.’
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I can see [ talent or curiosity for acting] in my oldest daughter [Julia Marie Pacino]. I don’t know how long she’ll run away from it, but it’s there in her.
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The problem with me is, I guess, the way I express myself, you have to be with me 50 years before you can get a sense of what I’m talking about.
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At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him.
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